Notional \No"tion*al\, a.
1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing
abstract conceptions.
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2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
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Discourses of speculative and notional things.
--Evelyn.
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3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
fanciful; as, a notional man.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
notional
adj 1: having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic
category; "sex is a notional category; gender is a
syntactic one"
2: not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some
fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's
imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a
notional world for oneself" [syn: fanciful, imaginary,
imagined]
3: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of
cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
knowledge" [syn: speculative]
4: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all
the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: fanciful]
5: being (or being of the nature of) a notion or concept; "a
plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional
comprehension"; "a notional response to the question"
[syn: conceptional, ideational]
WordNet (r) 2.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "notional":
Gothic, abstract, academic, arbitrary, armchair, baroque, bizarre,
brain-born, capricious, conceptive, conceptual, conjectural,
cranky, creative, crotchety, dream-built, esemplastic, extravagant,
fancied, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied,
fantasque, fantastic, fecund, fertile, fictive, flaky, florid,
freakish, germinal, grotesque, harebrained, humorsome, hypothetic,
ideal, ideational, ideative, ideological, illusory, imaginary,
imaginational, imaginative, imagined, impractical, ingenious,
inspired, inventive, kinky, maggoty, moody, moot, motiveless,
nonexistent, original, originative, outlandish, petulant,
postulatory, pregnant, preposterous, productive, prolific, quirky,
rococo, seminal, shadowy, shaping, speculative, supposititious,
teeming, temperamental, theoretical, unactual, unreal,
unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, visional, visioned,
wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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